Title Colonialism, Maasina rule, and the origins of Malaitan kastom / David Akin

Published Honolulu : Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 527 pages) : illustrations Series Pacific islands monograph series ; 26 Pacific islands monograph series ; no. 26. Contents 1. Half Century Before. Labor Trade ; Life Abroad ; Christian Missions and the Labor Scene ; Return from the White Man's Land ; Imposition of Pax Britannica -- 2. Early Native Administration : Coping with Custom. Idea of Indirect Rule ; Antecedents and Beginnings of Native Administration ; Moorhouse Report and Malaita Policy after Bell ; District Officers, Law, and Custom Knowledge ; Malaitans Consider Government Law ; Custom as a Basis for Colonial Law -- 3. Colonial Experiments and Mounting Resentments. Limping through the Great Depression ; Fallowes Movement ; La'aka Speaks ; Project to Counter are Depopulation ; Further Experiments : Councils and Courts -- 4. Wartime Opening. Malaitan War Experience ; We Must Be Willing to Die for the Red Cross ; War Years on Malaita : Government Control Slips Away ; Promotion and Refusal of Postwar Native Administration ; Government Social Services : Education and Medicine ; Councils and Courts Revisited -- 5. Rise of Maasina Rule. Genesis and Spread ; Movement Structure and Unity ; New Leaders ; Christian Leadership and the Missions ; Better Homes and Gardens : Maasina Rule Social Engineering ; Towns and Farms ; Social Life of Kastom ; Kastom Loa and Kastom Kouti ; Making Kastom Fit ; Kastom in Maasina Rule -- 6. Maasina Rule and the Government. Government Becomes Aware ; Early Altercations ; Provisional Cooperation ; Path to Conflict ; Rejecting Indentured Labor ; Alaha'ou'ou and the North-South Split ; Roy Davies Takes Charge -- 7. Suppression and Resistance. Operation Delouse ; Colonial Justice : Rex v Bobongi and Others ; Peaceful Wars of Savages ; Fences, Operation Jericho, and Civil Resistance ; Census and the Tax, 1949 ; Rumors, Hopes, and Fears -- 8. Attrition and Compromise. Gregory-Smith and the Release of the Head Chiefs ; Federal Council ; Resolution -- 9. Gains and Losses Summary This work is a political history of the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands' Protectorate from 1927, when the last violent resistance to colonial rule was crushed, to 1953 and the inauguration of the islands first representative political body, the Malaita Council. At the text's heart is a political movement known as Maasina Rule, which dominated political affairs in the southeastern Solomons for many years after World War II Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Self-determination, National -- Solomon Islands HISTORY -- Oceania. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. Manners and customs Politics and government Self-determination, National SUBJECT Malaita Province (Solomon Islands) -- Social life and customs Malaita Province (Solomon Islands) -- Politics and government Subject Solomon Islands Solomon Islands -- Malaita Province Form Electronic book LC no. 2013008708 ISBN 9780824838157 0824838157 9780824870874 0824870875

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